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Saturday, November 29, 2014

The Friends of the
National Archives Southeast Region are pleased to sponsor the free presentation
"Inventing America -
Records of the U.S. Patent Office” with Judy Russell, JD, CG, CGL, on Tuesday, December
9th, 2014.

Summary:Learn what the records
of the US Patent and Trademark Office (record group 241) and other related
records can tell you about your family history.

Presenter: The Legal Genealogist Judy G. Russell is a genealogist with a law
degree. She writes, teaches and lectures on a wide variety of genealogical
topics, ranging from using court records in family history to understanding DNA
testing. A Colorado native with roots deep in the American south on her
mother’s side and entirely in Germany on her father’s side, she is a member of
the Association of Professional Genealogists, the National Genealogical Society
and numerous state and regional genealogical societies. On the faculty of the
Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy, the Institute for Genealogy and Historical
Research in Alabama, and the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh, she
is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Board for Certification of
Genealogists, from which she holds credentials as a Certified Genealogist℠ and
Certified Genealogical Lecturer℠. In addition to the National
Genealogical Society Magazine she has written for the National Genealogical Society Quarterly.

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

The recording of today's webinar, Using Evernote for Genealogy, by Lisa Louise Cooke, is now available to view for free at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com for a limited time. The viewers loved it!

"Wow! Didn't know a thing about Evernote, now can't wait to use it."

"Legacy puts on the BEST webinars. And today was one of their best."

"She has made a believer out of me and I can't wait to try it. Anxious to try out her website as well. Thank you Legacy!"

View the Recording at FamilyTreeWebinars.com

If you could not make it to the live event or just want to watch it again, the 1 hour 34 minute recording of "Using Evernote for Genealogy" is now available to view in our webinar archives for free for a limited time. It is also available to our monthly or annual Webinar Members for the duration of your membership. Visit www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com to watch. The supplemental syllabus materials are also available for annual/monthly webinar subscribers to download/print/save. Login or subscribe.

Last week's webinar, Evaluating What You Have Found: The Third Stage of Research, presented by Barbara Renick, is now available to ISGS members in the Members Section of the ISGS website (http://ilgensoc.org/members.php).

And don't forget to spread the word! Forward this email onto your friends and colleagues, post the information to social media sites and/or your blog/website, or print out a few copies of our webinar flyer to hand out at your local society meetings. The flyer can be accessed at http://bit.ly/isgs2014webinars.

Support the ISGS Webinar program by making a financial contribution, which will help ISGS expand its educational offerings in a virtual manner. To learn why we need your help, or to make a contribution, please visit http://ilgensoc.org/cpage.php?pt=345.

Monday, November 17, 2014

Join us and Lisa Louise Cooke this Wednesday for a free webinar, "Using Evernote for Genealogy."

Webinar Description:

You can remember everything in your genealogy research with Evernote, because it puts all your notes at your fingertips. In addition to superfast and easy note taking and retrieval, you’ll learn how to clip items from the Internet (rather than saving bulky web pages!), use OCR technology to search your digitized documents like newspaper articles, and tap into the best apps that help Evernote work even harder for you. Evernote harnesses the power of the Cloud to allow you to work across all your platforms (including your iPad and smart phone) Best of all, it’s free!

Join us for the live webinar Wednesday, November 19, 2014 at 2pm Eastern U.S. Register today to reserve your virtual seat. Registration is free but space is limited to the first 1,000 people to join that day. Before joining, please visit www.java.com to ensure you have the latest version of Java which our webinar software requires. When you join, if you receive a message that the webinar is full, you know we've reached the 1,000 limit, so we invite you to view the recording which should be published to the webinar archives within an hour or two of the event's conclusion.

Download the syllabus

In preparation for the webinar, download the supplemental syllabus materials here. The syllabus is available for annual or monthly webinar subscribers. Log in here or subscribe here.

No worries. Its recording will be available for a limited time. Webinar Subscribers have unlimited access to all webinar recordings for the duration of their membership.

About the presenter

Lisa Louise Cooke is the owner of Genealogy Gems, a genealogy and family history multi-media company. She is producer and host of the Genealogy Gems Podcast, the popular online genealogy audio show as well as the Family History: Genealogy Made Easypodcast, both available at www.GenealogyGems.com, in iTunes, and through the Genealogy Gems app. Her podcast episodes bring genealogy news, research strategies, expert interviews and inspiration to genealogists and have been downloaded over 1 million times.

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Friday, November 14, 2014

The recording of today's webinar, Legacy and Pictures, is now available to view for free at www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com. We learned:

The basics of adding a digital image to Legacy Family Tree

Downloading an image from an email

Downloading a census image and adding it to a new census event

Adding pictures to pedigree charts, family group records, and wall charts

about the Media Relinker and Gather Media Tools

This was also the webinar debut of my four kids. The 6" of overnight snow cancelled their school and so they "volunteered" to be my guest hosts. I think they did a terrific job introducing the webinar. Watch it below....what did you think?

View the Recording at FamilyTreeWebinars.com

If you could not make it to the live event or just want to watch it again, the 1 hour 29 minute recording of "Legacy and Pictures" is now available to view in our webinar archives for free indefinitely. It is also available to our monthly or annual Webinar Members for the duration of your membership. Visit www.FamilyTreeWebinars.com to watch. The supplemental syllabus materials are also available for annual/monthly webinar subscribers to download/print/save. Login or subscribe.

Thursday, November 13, 2014

Our special guest speaker this month, on November 20th at 7:00 p.m. MDT, will be

Peg Ivanyo

"Using Technology to See Things More Clearly”

Having difficulty figuring out exactly where you are in your research? Have you read through the records multiple times and still can’t see past the brick wall? Consider a more visual approach. There are many technical tools available to us today that can help us analyze problems, develop research plans, understand geographical and social context, and more. This presentation will review simple ways to utilize spreadsheets, mind-maps, geographical maps, census track overlays, timelines, historical photos, and interactive online products to help us see our research more clearly, and perhaps even break through a brick wall or two.

Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Join us this Friday for our next Legacy Family Tree Virtual User's Group Meeting where Legacy's Geoff Rasmussen will teach about the multimedia tools available in the Legacy software. We'll also have time for casual questions and answers about using Legacy.

Join us for the live webinar Friday, November 14, 2014 at 2pm Eastern U.S. Register today to reserve your virtual seat. Registration is free but space is limited to the first 1,000 people to join that day. Before joining, please visit www.java.com to ensure you have the latest version of Java which our webinar software requires. When you join, if you receive a message that the webinar is full, you know we've reached the 1,000 limit, so we invite you to view the recording which should be published to the webinar archives within an hour or two of the event's conclusion.

Download the syllabus

In preparation for the webinar, download the supplemental syllabus materials here. The syllabus is freely available. Click here to save or print.

No worries. Its recording will be available for a limited time. Webinar Subscribers have unlimited access to all webinar recordings for the duration of their membership.

Add it to your Google Calendar

With our Google Calendar button, you will never forget our upcoming webinars. Simply click the button to add it to your calendar. You can then optionally embed the webinar events (and even turn them on and off) into your own personal calendar. If you have already added the calendar, you do not have to do it again - the new webinar events will automatically appear.

Sunday, November 9, 2014

The Friends of the National Archives Southeast Region are
pleased to sponsor the presentation "Civil War Medical Records” with Craig R. Scott, CG, FUGA, November
11th, 2014.

Summary:Examines medical records created at the time of
injury and records created years after. Those found in other records and those
found in other places..

Presenter:Craig Roberts
Scott, MA, CG, FUGA is the author of The
‘Lost Pensions’: Settled Accounts of the Act of 6 April 1838 (Revised) and Records of the Accounting Officers of the
Department of the Treasury, Inventory 14 (Revised). He has authored
thirteen books and several articles in the National Genealogical Society
Quarterly, Family Chronicle and other genealogical publications. He is the
President and CEO of Heritage Books, Inc., a genealogical publishing firm with
over 5,100 titles in print. A professional genealogical and historical
researcher for more than twenty-nine years, he specializes in the records of
the National Archives, especially those that relate to the military. He was the
Clan Scott Genealogist (1985 – 2000). He is a member of the Company of Military
Historians on the editorial board of the National Genealogical Society
Quarterly, and is a Director of the Association of Professional Genealogists. A
faculty member for several years of the Institute of Genealogy and Historical
Research, Samford University and the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy, and
recently the Genealogical Institute of Pittsburgh. He was awarded the Grahame
T. Smallwood, Jr. Award in 2008 and UGA Silver Tray Award in 2009. He became a
Fellow, Utah Genealogical Association in 2014.

This presentation will be broadcast live on November 11th,
2014 [1st Tuesday]:

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